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VIDEO: Clippers fresh faces earn extra responsibility
NANAIMO - The Clippers leaders have carried the load during an excellent start to the 2022-23 hockey season.But as the weeks have gone by several of Nanaimo's young first year players have expanded th...
Oct 25, 2022
James Butler, Sean Thomas Erlington, Dedrick Mills earn CFL players of week honours
TORONTO - Running backs James Butler, Sean Thomas Erlington and Dedrick Mills are the Canadian Football League's top players of the week. Butler, a running back for the B.C. Lions, had a career-high 1...
Oct 25, 2022
Canada coach looks to his youth for Americas Rugby Trophy match against Brazil 'A'
TORONTO - Canada rugby coach Kingsley Jones is looking to his youth Wednesday when Canada 'A' takes on Brazil 'A' at the Americas Rugby Trophy. Jones has kept just six starters from the team that Cana...
Oct 25, 2022
Three new B.C. Supreme Court judges in Vancouver, another raised to appeal court
VANCOUVER - The federal government has appointed three new judges to the British Columbia Supreme Court and raised another to the B.C. Court of Appeal. A statement from the Department of Justice says ...
Oct 25, 2022
Sexual assault trial concluding for Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, ex-vaccine campaign head
GATINEAU, Que. - The sexual assault trial against the former head of the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine campaign, Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, is expected to conclude today. The Crown prosecutor argu...
Oct 25, 2022
Federal minister calls utility's pause on Atlantic energy corridor 'bump in the road'
HALIFAX - The federal minister of natural resources says Nova Scotia Power's decision to "pause" its participation in a proposed megaproject aimed at ending reliance on coal is just a temporary setbac...
Oct 25, 2022
House of Commons to vote on bill for dental care benefit, rental support this week
OTTAWA - A major part of the federal government's affordability plan is expected to pass final reading in the House of Commons this week, after the Liberals fast-tracked Bill C-31 through the health c...
Oct 25, 2022
Ash Carter, defense chief who opened jobs to women, dies
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ash Carter, who served as secretary of defense in the final two years of the Obama administration and opened military jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in t...
Oct 25, 2022
South Africa says Ethiopia peace talks have begun on Tigray
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Peace talks to end Ethiopia's Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa, a South African government spokesman said Tuesday. It is the highest-level effort yet to end...
Oct 25, 2022
Massive re-development of Howard Johnson hotel site passes next step
NANAIMO - A proposed major re-work of a property at the gateway to downtown is another step closer to reality.City councillors passed third reading of zoning and land use bylaws for the former Howard ...
Oct 25, 2022